English Dictionary

Russia

/ˈɹʌʃə/

name

A country in Eastern Europe and North Asia, bordering on the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas; established as an independent country in 1991 upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it is the largest country in the world. Co-official name: Russian Federation, formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) (among other names) from 1917 to 1991. Capital and largest city: Moscow.

Russia is the largest country in the world.

意味（1）

A country in Eastern Europe and North Asia, bordering on the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas; established as an independent country in 1991 upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it is the largest country in the world. Co-official name: Russian Federation, formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) (among other names) from 1917 to 1991. Capital and largest city: Moscow.

意味（2）

(historical, loosely) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).

意味（3）

(historical) The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917.

意味（4）

(historical, dated) Kievan Rus; the medieval East Slavic state centered in Kiev.

意味（5）

(dated, countable) Any of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).

Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self.